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  Declension \De*clen"sion\, n. [Apparently corrupted fr. F.
     d['e]clinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See
     Decline, and cf. Declination.]
     1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent;
        slope.
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              The declension of the land from that place to the
              sea.                                  --T. Burnet.
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     2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency;
        deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of
        science, of a state, etc.
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              Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts
              To base declension.                   --Shak.
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     3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a
        declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
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     4. (Gram.)
        (a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to
            the grammatical cases.
        (b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by
            cases; as, the first or the second declension of
            nouns, adjectives, etc.
        (c) Rehearsing a word as declined.
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     Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original
           form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the
           variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings
           (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the
           nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the
           various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from
           the noun's upright form, was called a declension.
           --Harris.
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     Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.
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  Declension \De*clen"sion\, n. [Apparently corrupted fr. F.
     d['e]clinaison, fr. L. declinatio, fr. declinare. See
     Decline, and cf. Declination.]
     1. The act or the state of declining; declination; descent;
        slope.
  
              The declension of the land from that place to the
              sea.                                  --T. Burnet.
  
     2. A falling off towards a worse state; a downward tendency;
        deterioration; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of
        science, of a state, etc.
  
              Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To
              base declension.                      --Shak.
  
     3. Act of courteously refusing; act of declining; a
        declinature; refusal; as, the declension of a nomination.
  
     4. (Gram.)
        (a) Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc., according to
            the grammatical cases.
        (b) The form of the inflection of a word declined by
            cases; as, the first or the second declension of
            nouns, adjectives, etc.
        (c) Rehearsing a word as declined.
  
     Note: The nominative was held to be the primary and original
           form, and was likened to a perpendicular line; the
           variations, or oblique cases, were regarded as fallings
           (hence called casus, cases, or fallings) from the
           nominative or perpendicular; and an enumerating of the
           various forms, being a sort of progressive descent from
           the noun's upright form, was called a declension.
           --Harris.
  
     Declension of the needle, declination of the needle.

  declension
       n 1: the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in
            Indo-European languages
       2: process of changing to an inferior state [syn: deterioration,
           decline in quality, worsening]
       3: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall,
           decline, declination, downslope] [ant: ascent]
       4: a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European
          languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional
          forms; "the first declension in Latin"

  declension
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 (ετ γραμμ en) η κλίση (κατηγορία ονομάτων)
     2 (ετ γραμμ en) η κλίση (η ενέργεια με την οποία κλίνω ένα όνομα)

  declension
     n.
     1 A falling off, decay or descent.
     2 (lb en grammar) The act of decline a word; the act of listing the
  (l en inflection inflections) of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
     3 (lb en grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
     4 (lb en grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or
  adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

  declension
     n.
     1 A falling off, decay or descent.
     2 (lb en grammar) The act of decline a word; the act of listing the
  (l en inflection inflections) of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
     3 (lb en grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
     4 (lb en grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or
  adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

  declension
     n.
     1 A falling off, decay or descent.
     2 (lb en grammar) The act of decline a word; the act of listing the
  (l en inflection inflections) of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
     3 (lb en grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
     4 (lb en grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or
  adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

  declension
     n.
     1 A falling off, decay or descent.
     2 (lb en grammar) The act of decline a word; the act of listing the
  (l en inflection inflections) of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
     3 (lb en grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
     4 (lb en grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or
  adjectives according to the inflections they receive.

  declension
     Englanti n.
     1 (yhteys kielitiede k=en) nominien taivutus
     2 (yhteys kielitiede k=en) taivutusluokka, deklinaatio

  declension
     Engelska n.
     (tagg grammatik språk=en) deklination

  Declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/
  الإنحراف

  declension //dɪˈklɛn.ʃən// 
  1. скланя́не
  act
  2. склоне́ние
  way of categorizing

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/ 
  skloňování

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/ 
  sestup

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/ 
  ústup

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/
  Deklination , Beugung von Substantiven, Adjektiven usw. [ling.]
   see: declensions, strong declension, weak declension
  

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/
  Rückgang , Verfall 

  declension //dɪˈklɛn.ʃən// 
  1. taivutus
  act
  2. taivutusluokka
  way of categorizing

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/
  deklinacija, odbijanje, opadanje, propadanje, sintaksa, sklanjanje

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/
  1. romlás
  2. fônévragozás
  3. deklináció
  4. lejtô
  5. hanyatlás
  6. lejtôsség

  declension //dɪˈklɛn.ʃən// 
  格変化, 曲用, ディクレンション, 変化
  way of categorizing

  declension //dɪˈklɛn.ʃən// 
  deklination, böjning
  way of categorizing

  declension /dɪklˈɛnʃən/
  1. (gram.) isim çekimi, tasrif
  2. çökme.

  
/dəˈkɫɛnʃən/

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "declension":
     IC analysis, abnegation, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph,
     bound morpheme, cascade, catabasis, cataract, chute, collapse,
     comedown, conjugation, contradiction, crash, cutting, debacle,
     debasement, decadence, decadency, deceleration, declination,
     declinature, decline, decline and fall, declining, decrescendo,
     defluxion, deformation, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration,
     degradation, demotion, denial, depravation, depravedness,
     depreciation, deprivation, derivation, derogation, descending,
     descension, descent, deterioration, devolution, difference of form,
     dilapidation, diminuendo, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer,
     disclamation, disobedience, dissent, dive, down, downbend,
     downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour,
     downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward mobility, downward trend,
     drop, dropping, dwindling, dying, ebb, effeteness, enclitic,
     fading, failing, fall, falling, falling-off, formative, free form,
     gravitation, holding back, immediate constituent analysis,
     inclination, infix, infixation, inflection, involution, lapse,
     loss of tone, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics,
     morphology, morphophonemics, nay, negation, negative,
     negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, noncompliance, nonconsent,
     nonobservance, paradigm, plummeting, plunge, pounce, prefix,
     prefixation, proclitic, radical, rapids, recantation, refusal,
     regression, rejection, remission, repudiation, retention, retreat,
     retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, root, ruination,
     slippage, slowdown, slump, stem, stoop, subsidence, suffix,
     suffixation, swoop, theme, thumbs-down, turndown, unwillingness,
     wane, waterfall, withholding, word-formation
  
  

  n. 语尾变化,格变化,倾斜;

     n. 词尾变化,格变化,倾斜,衰退